2chill
Banned
Last night I encountered a rogue Deadly rated NPC Cobra after I accidentally dropped too far away from a RES.
Have FD programmed in some random supercharged NPC ships with CMDRish pilot skills?
Deadly Cobra scanned and opened fire on me before my KWS completed, then my gimballed D2 Beam lasers (on 3.5 pips) struggled to take its shields down. It destroyed my A4 shields (on 1.5 pips) in seconds on each pass, so I had to do a runner each time to recharge shields and then spank a B4 shield cell.... After much twisting and turning I eventually took it out for a meagre 20K bounty, but not before using 5 shield cells, a full load of chaff, a shed load of multi-cannon ammo, having my hull depleted to 50% and suffering 10K worth of damage to hull integrity (revealed when I docked to repair). I am not complaining - it's just after a 1000 or so NPC Cobra kills, this one actually came as a real challenge!!!! I dread to think what a similarly equipped and skilled NPC Anaconda or Python would do to a reasonably well piloted, maxed out MK3.
Have FD programmed in some random supercharged NPC ships with CMDRish pilot skills?
Deadly Cobra scanned and opened fire on me before my KWS completed, then my gimballed D2 Beam lasers (on 3.5 pips) struggled to take its shields down. It destroyed my A4 shields (on 1.5 pips) in seconds on each pass, so I had to do a runner each time to recharge shields and then spank a B4 shield cell.... After much twisting and turning I eventually took it out for a meagre 20K bounty, but not before using 5 shield cells, a full load of chaff, a shed load of multi-cannon ammo, having my hull depleted to 50% and suffering 10K worth of damage to hull integrity (revealed when I docked to repair). I am not complaining - it's just after a 1000 or so NPC Cobra kills, this one actually came as a real challenge!!!! I dread to think what a similarly equipped and skilled NPC Anaconda or Python would do to a reasonably well piloted, maxed out MK3.
